CORRESPONDENCE 
785 
Ana when certain alleged Americans, of German extraction, 
have dilated upon the perfection of the German meat inspection 
service and the weakness of our own, it has afforded me ex¬ 
quisite pleasure to point to the fact that there are many times 
the number of cases of trichinosis in man reported in Germany 
from the use of their inspected pork than are recorded in this 
country from eating pork which has never been inspected. 
Also that in Germany, although they have inspection, they 
continue to eat the flesh of animals affected with advanced 
actinomycosis, tuberculosis, pleuro-pneumonia, and various other 
diseases, as well as pregnant and parturient females, which, if an 
inspector.passed in this country, and it became known, would 
cost him his position. 
With these facts before me I have asked the question : Why 
this elaborate inspection system of Germany if it neither pre¬ 
vents trichinosis nor condemns the carcasses of diseased animals, 
except in the most extreme cases, in which the consumer himself 
would probably reject the meat. ? 
This, however, is not throwing mud, in any recognized ac¬ 
ceptance of the expression. It is simply stating the facts. 
And I am sure the plain facts are sufficient to establish the 
point which I had in view. 
Finally, as to my alleged failure to exhibit that patriotism 
and pride in the profession in our own country which the doctor 
expects from me, and my championship of a dying cause, this 
opinion would be most distressing to me were it not all due to 
his having been again led astray through failure to grasp the 
situation and the language. 
My remarks at Philadelphia were intended as a protest 
against the insufferable egotism and effrontery of a few over- 
zealous gentlemen who, having been elected to membership in 
a society composed very largely of two-year men, went out of 
their way at that meeting to denounce such men as little if any 
better than quacks. I am not a graduate of a two-year school, 
but I have long been a member of the United States Veterinary 
Medical Association, and if I held such views as were expressed 
